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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Cornell
October 15, 2026 | Field Hockey
PRINCETON (8-4, 3-1 Ivy League) vs. CORNELL (5-6, 3-1 Ivy League)
Friday, Oct. 16 • 5 pm
Ithaca, N.Y.
A – About The Tigers
Princeton is 8-4 on the season, with four straight victories, most recently a 2-1 overtime win over previously unbeaten and No. 1 Northwestern. Princeton is 8-0 in games that have been decided in regulation or overtime and 0-4 in games that went to shootouts. The shootout losses are against teams currently ranked No. 1, 3, 4 and 15 in RPI.
B – Big Red
Cornell is 5-6 overall: 3-1 at home and 2-5 away from home.
C – Corner D
Princeton Defensive Penalty Corner unit faced 14 attempts from Northwestern and allowed one goal. Northwestern’s goal came on the fifth of five straight — the orginal and four re-corners — after Princeton had stopped Northwestern on another occasion with four straight.
D – Defense
Princeton is tied with UMass for the fewest goals allowed in Division I (eight). Of the eight goals Princeton has allowed, there has been one penalty stroke, five off of penalty corners and only two in the run of play.
E – Ella
Ella Cashman’s overtime goal against Northwestern was her third career OT goal (2024 Ivy tournament final against Harvard, 2025 regular season at Rutgers). No other current Princeton player has scored a goal in overtime.
F – Fifth
Princeton’s RPI is currently at No. 5 after the win over Northwestern. That is four spots higher than its NFHCA ranking this week of No. 9.
G – Goalie
Princeton’s Olivia Caponiti leads the Ivy League and is third in Division I in goals-against average (0.60). She is also second in the league and sixth in Division I in save percentage (.795).
H – Honored
Pru Lindsey was named the Ivy League and NFHCA Division I Offensive Player of the Week after her goal and assist against Dartmouth and then goal and assist against Norhtwestern. Lindsey tied the Northwestern game at 1-1 with a penalty stroke with 1:13 left in regulation and then set up Ella Cashman’s game-winner in OT. Cashman was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week.
I – Ivy League
Princeton and Cornell are both 3-1 in the Ivy League, both with a loss to 4-0 Harvard. Yale and Columbia are both 2-2, followed by 1-3 Brown and Dartmouth and 0-4 Penn.
J – Just The Facts
Princeton cannot mathematically clinch a spot in the Ivy League tournament this weekend. Both Cornell and Harvard can with a win and other results that go their way. The only team that cannot mathematically host the tournament entering Week 5 is Penn. In addition to Princeton at Cornell, the other Ivy games this weekend are Yale at Dartmouth, Columbia at Penn and Harvard at Brown.
K – Know This
Princeton has three wins over teams in the Top 20 of the RPI: No. 2 Northwestern, No. 13 Yale and No. 19 Penn State. Princeton’s four losses are to No. 1 Maryland, No. 3 UConn, No. 4 Harvard and No. 15 North Carolina — all in shootouts.
L – Looking Ahead
Princeton will be home next weekend with games against Brown (Friday) and Saint Joe’s (Sunday). The regular season will end Oct. 30 at Columbia.
M – Minutes
Clem Houlden and Ottilie Sykes have played every minute of every game this season.
N – No Kidding?
Princeton allows 7.2 shots per game. Princeton’s opponents have combined for 87 shots, 33 of which came from Harvard (15) and Northwestern (18) in the two games Princeton was outshot. The Tigers allow 5.4 shots per game in games where they outshot their opponents.
O – October
Princeton is 4-0 this October and has won 16 straight games in the month, dating to a 2-1 loss at Syracuse on Oct. 6, 2024.
P – Pru
Pru Lindsey had six goals and one assist in the first 10 games of the season (1.3 points per game and then had two goals and two assists in the wins over Dartmouth and Northwestern (3.0 points per game). Lindsey had four goals in the first four games, no goals in the next six and now two in the last two.
Q – Quite A Stat
Princeton held Dartmouth without a shot (and had 27 of its own) in the 4-0 win last Friday. The last time before that when Princeton held an opponent without a shot was in 2016, when the Tigers outshot the Towson Tigers 44-0.
R – Reese
Reese Milone is the only freshman to have started every game this season.
S – Series
Princeton leads the all-time series with Cornell 39-6-3, including a 4-0 win a year ago on Bedford Field. Princeton’s goals came from Beth Yeager, Caitlin Thompson, Anna Faulstich and Pru Lindsey.
T – Tagliente And Rizzo
Carla Tagliente and Dina Rizzo are 126-60 since taking over the Princeton program in 2016. They are 56-7 in the Ivy League.
U – Upshot
There were 24 total shots in the Princeton-Northwestern game. Of those 24 shots, there were 21 off penalty corners and one off a penalty stroke. Only two were taken in the run of play.
V – Very Close
Cornell averages 2.182 goals per game. Princeton averages 2.083 goals per game.
W – Weather
Princeton has played 12 games. Of those 12, only one (the Dartmouth game) has been played either below 82 degrees or on a day when it was not raining.
X – X-Factor
Princeton has not failed to reach the NCAA tournament in consecutive years since 1992-93. That streak will continue through this year, as the Tigers reached the NCAA final a year ago.
Y – Yeah?
Princeton is 40-14 since the start of the 2024 season, with an NCAA quarterfinal, an NCAA championship game appearance, an Ivy League championship and an Ivy League tournament title.
Z – Zilch
There have been 30 cards issued in Princeton’s first 12 games (16 for Princeton, 14 for its opponents). There have been no goals scored during any of the penalty time from those cards by either team.
